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They say he was a pretty child, with blue eyes and light hair, and that he was of gentle and timid dis- position. He was not a brilliant student except in drawing and modeling. In these departments he began taking medals while a mere boy, and he kept on taking them until he finally won the highest reward offered by the Danish schools — the * ' grand prize of sculpture, " and a pension for further study in Italv. He had become something of a dreamer, but his visit to the land of art started him ...anew. His arrival in Rome was to him the opening of a new life. " I was born on the 8th of March, 1797, " he u. Sed to say. ' ' Before that I did jiot exist. " The ancient statues ap- pealed to him with an indescribable fascination. The celebratied Italian sculptor, Canova, was living at t^at time, and he gave the honest voung man a cordial welcome. He probably did not suspect that his modest visitor was destined to overshadow even his great fame. Canova's art was inclined to the theatrical, but Thorwald-sen was not contami- nated bv the traditions of modern Italy ; he priate : ' ' The Triumphant Entry of Alexander Into Babylon.
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